About the webinar

According to the projections of the International Transport Forum the share of emissions resulting from transport in developing regions is expected to increase as result of growing economies and an increased demand for transport (ITF 2017). As part of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), the countries of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region have identified electric mobility as a key measure to achieving their goals.

Taking this into account, the LEDS LAC Platform and the LEDS GP Transport Working Group, together with several partners, are launching the community of practice on electric mobility, a space for ongoing collaboration to allow peer-to-peer learning and to provide a deeper understanding of the options available to overcome barriers. This webinar we present UN Environment´s MOVE initiative and the experiences of City of Medellin (Colombia) and Costa Rica, regarding barriers to electric mobility and they approaches they are using to overcome them.

The webinar will be held in Spanish. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the LEDS LAC Platform Secretariat: info@ledslac.org.

About the panelists

Esteban Bermúdez Forn

He works at the UN Environment office for the Latin America and the Caribbean and is the Coordinator of MOVE. MOVE is a regional platform that seeks to accelerate the transition to electric mobility in Latin America. Esteban is an electrical engineer by profession and has a master’s degree in Sustainable Energy Technologies from the Technological University of Delft, in the Netherlands. He has 10 years of experience as a consultant in energy and electric mobility.

Jesús Valverde

He has a Master in e-commerce and extensive experience working in electric mobility. He is a founding partner of the Latin American Association of Electric Mobility (ASOMOVE), from where he accompanied the Government of Costa Rica in the preparation and approval of Law 9518 for the generation of incentives for electric transport.

Jorge Ramirez Orrego

Electrical Engineer with a master’s degree in engineering with an emphasis in transmission and distribution of energy. Has more than 8 years of experience in public service companies. Currently, he is part of the team that leads the Electric Mobility project at EPM.

Additional Resources

According to the report, the car fleet in the region will reach 200 million units in 2050, which will imply an increase in the demand for fuel and emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants harmful to health. Such an increase would call into question the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement.

Currently the incremental cost of a light electric car compared to a similar conventional one is 9,000 Euros, which is estimated to be reduced to less than one thousand by the year 2025 (according to conservative estimates), mainly due to the constant reduction in the price of electric cars. batteries

The report provides information on the incentives, policy instruments and financial mechanisms that are serving to accelerate the transition to electric mobility around the world, as well as its specific application in the countries of the region. It also suggests a regional roadmap to accelerate the transition to electric mobility, with a special emphasis on urban public transport as a sector that could lead this change in Latin America.

According to the study, Latin America presents the best conditions globally for electric vehicles to deliver their greatest benefits in terms of reducing emissions, since electricity is generated to a large extent with renewable energies. The deployment of electric mobility in Latin America could also mean fuel savings of approximately 85 billion dollars by 2050.

The Costa Rican Association of Electric Mobility ASOMOVE is a non-profit association of national scope and composed of users and interested in electric mobility.
N ace for the need to promote electric mobility so that we support the transition to a society less dependent on fossil fuels and with due recharge infrastructure and incentives for the advancement of this type of public and private mobility.